To the West he is public enemy number one: snatching land from his neighbours, interfering in foreign elections and unveiling weapons that he says render Washington’s missile defence systems obsolete. But despite — or because of — his reputation abroad, Vladimir Putin is still widely popular in Russia and is all but guaranteed to win a...

MOSCOW: President Vladimir Putin suggested in a US television interview that Ukrainians, Tatars or “Jews,” could have meddled in the 2016 US presidential election — but not the Kremlin. “Why have you decided the Russian authorities, myself included, gave anybody permission to do this?” Putin asked in the often-combative interview with NBC...

Kiev: Ukraine on Friday charged a prisoner swap negotiator with plotting to assassinate President Petro Poroshenko and other top officials leading the four-year campaign against Russian-backed eastern insurgents. A judge in Kiev said Volodymyr Ruban planned to use mortar fire and grenades to attack the presidential administration and parliament...

Ukraine has charged a prisoner swap negotiator with plotting to assassinate the country’s Western-backed president as well as other officials by staging attacks on their homes and offices with mortar fire and grenades. …read more Source: Iran...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Ukraine on Friday charged a prisoner swap negotiator with plotting to assassinate President Petro Poroshenko and other senior officials by attacking their homes and offices with mortar fire and grenades. …read more Source: Tasnim News...